2026

Andrade, N. & Raja, R. 2026. ‘Introduction: Invisible Labour and Ancient Economy’, in N. Andrade and R. Raja (eds.) Invisible Labour in Antiquity. Visualizing Obscure Work in the Ancient Mediterranean and West Asia, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia 1 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 15-34.

Andrade, N. & Raja, R. 2026. Invisible Labour in Antiquity. Visualizing Obscure Work in the Ancient Mediterranean and West Asia, The Archaeology and History of Western Asia 1 (Turnhout: Brepols).

Baird, J. A., Bobou, O., Kamash, Z., and   Raja, R. 2026. ‘Collecting Palmyra: The Global Dispersal of Palmyrene Funerary Reliefs’, American Journal of Archaeology, 130(3), 383-406.

Bobou, O., Bucci, I. & Raja, R. (2026). Nurturing the Elite: Representations of Drinking, Eating, and Religious Vessels in Palmyrene Funerary Iconography, Studies in Palmyrene Archaeology and History 13 (Turnhout: Brepols).

Bobou, O., Bucci, I., & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Standing on Their Own: A Contextual Analysis of Single and Double Portraits of Children on Palmyrene Funerary Stelai’, Zeitschrift für Orient-Archäologie, 17: 144-220. https://doi.org/10.34780/tv749a59

Bobou, O., Bucci, I. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Discovering Denmark: From prehistoric burials to Viking Age power architecture and beyond’, Current World Archaeology, 136: 46-51.

Bobou, O., Bucci, I., English, R. S. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Monuments of kingship. Power, memory, and belief at Jelling’, Current World Archaeology, 137: 38-42.

Bobou, O. Calomino, D., Lenghan, J., & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Putting Portraits in the Big Picture: Otacilia Severa and Faustina the Elder in Palmyra’, in R. Raja (ed.), Portraying the Individual in the Roman East. Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st–4th Centuries AD), Studies in Classical Archaeology 18 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 85-112.

Bobou, O. and Dickenson, C. (2026). ‘The Portrait Statues from the Artemision at Messene — Expressing Identity and Representing Power', in R. Raja (ed.), Portraying the Individual in the Roman East. Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st–4th Centuries AD), Studies in Classical Archaeology 18 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 187-206.

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Catastrophes and Resilience: The Archaeology of Crises at Palmyra, 150–272’, in Catastrophes in Context. Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World, edited by R. Raja and A. Wilson (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 131-152.

Bobou, O. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Women and their Clothing Styles in Sacred Spaces. The Case of Palmyra’, in G. Pedrucci, F. Fulminante, and M. Seifert (eds), Inside Out: Gender and Ageing Agency in Urban and Non-urban Religious Spaces in Antiquity (Brepols: Turnhout), 187-204.

English, R. S. & Steding, J. (2026). ‘Beyond the luxurious: Tracing the Late Antique ivory trade’, Current World Archaeology, 137: 32-37.Fernandéz-Götz, M. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Urbicide: Killing the City’, Current World Archaeology, 136: 58-59.

Fernandéz-Götz, M. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Pilgrimage Cities’, Current World Archaeology, 137: 56-57.

Furlan, G. (2026). ‘Revising the concepts of systemic context and archaeological context: a proposal’, Archaeological Dialogues, First View: 1-12. (OA)

Intagliata, E. E. (2025). ‘The ›Mosaic Field‹ at Eski K˘ahta, Adiyaman Province’, Jahrbuch für Antike und Christentum, 67: 133-47. (published in Feb. 2026 but with a 2025 publication date)

Nørskov, V. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Communicating classical antiquity: The making of a Museum of Ancient Art’, Current World Archaeology, 135: 40-43.

Raja, R. (ed.). (2026). Portraying the Individual in the Roman East. Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st–4th Centuries AD), Studies in Classical Archaeology 18 (Turnhout: Brepols).

Raja, R. (2026). ‘Portraying the Individual in the Roman East: Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st–4th Centuries AD)’, in R. Raja (ed.), Portraying the Individual in the Roman East. Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st–4th Centuries AD), Studies in Classical Archaeology 18 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 1-8.

Raja, R. (2026). ‘Locally Crafted Empires: The Case of the Palmyrene Portrait Habit and the Legacy of Greek Art’, in R. Raja (ed.), Portraying the Individual in the Roman East. Local–Imperial Entanglements in Sculpture, Mosaics, and Paintings (1st–4th Centuries AD), Studies in Classical Archaeology 18 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 59-84.

Rubina, R. (2026). ‘Looking in the Wrong Direction. The Search for Late Antique Stylistic Forerunners in Palmyrene Art’, Journal of Eastern Christian Art, 14(2025): 37-52. DOI: https://doi.org/10.2143/ECA.14.0.3295405 

Raja, R. (2026). ‘(Re)writing Roman Britain’, in Communities, Connectivity and Complexity in Roman Britain. New archaeological agendas, edited by Martin Pitts, Penny Coombe, Eleri Cousins, Andrew Gardner, and Lisa Lodwick† (Oxford: BAR), 225-228. 

Raja, R. & Sindbæk, S. M. (2026). ‘Urban Jungles’, Current World Archaeology, 135: 58-59.

Raja, R. and Wilson, A. (eds) (2026). Catastrophes in Context. Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World (Turnhout: Brepols).

Raja, R. and Wilson, A. (2026). ‘Catastrophe and Response in the Ancient World’, in Catastrophes in Context. Disaster and Response in the Roman and Early Byzantine World, edited by R. Raja and A. Wilson (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 1-22.

Seland, E. H. (2026). Long-distance Trade in the Ancient World. A Network History (S.l.: Palgrave Macmillan). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-90855-2 

Steding, J., Raja, R. Romanowska, I. & Yon, J.-B. (2026). ‘Reconsidering Three Hundred Years of Epigraphic Habit in Palmyra (Syria) in Light of a Full Quantifcation Approach’, Journal of Urban Archaeology 13: 31-48.

Steding J., Romanowska, I., Yon, J-B. & Raja, R. (2026). ‘Public Inscriptions from the City of Palmyra, Syria (1–273 CE)’, Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 14.6: 1–6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.189

2025

Blömer, Michael, Olympia Bobou, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “From ‘Secondary’ City to Primary Focus: A Historiographical Approach to the Urbanity of Seleucia in Pieria.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 229–243. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151435 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Cities ‘Lost’ and ‘Found’: The Impact of Western Research on Ancient Sites in the Perception of Their Urbanism.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 141–148. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151430. 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Archival Palimpsests: Investigating the History of Harald Ingholt’s Archive of Palmyrene Sculptures.” In Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, ed. by Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja, and Maria Stamatopoulou, Archive Archaeology 6 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 405- 428. 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “From Tadmor to Palmyra, 1923–1929: The (Re-) creation of an Ancient City.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 215–228. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151434. 

Bobou, Olympia, Miriam Kühn, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Lost Cities in the Near East: Reassembling Knowledge through Archival Research and Excavation Documentation.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 177–200. 

Bobou, Olympia, Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar, Miriam Kühn, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja. 2025. “Shelving Urban Excavations: Revisiting Ottoman and Mandate Period Archives in the Near East.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 149–176. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151431. 

Bobou, Olympia, and Rubina Raja, eds.2025. Journal of Urban Archaeology 12. Special section on “Lost Cities and Legacy Data.” Turnhout: Brepols. Kühn, Miriam. 2025. “Beyond the Finds: Digitising Ctesiphon’s Photographic Archive for Research and Plus.” in Living the Past Archaeological Research and Cultural Heritage Strategies in the Middle East and Beyond. Studies in Honour of Ute Franke, ed. by Karin Bartl, Thomas Urban, and Stefan Weber (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz), pp. 203–218. 

Kühn, Miriam. 2025. “Revisiting Herzfeld’s Letters and Diaries from the Samarra Excavation 1911–1913.” in Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Cultural Knowledge, ed. by Olympia Bobou, Maria Stamatopoulou, and Rubina Raja, ARC, 6 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 57–87. 

Raja, Rubina. 2025. “The Organization of Archaeological Fieldwork and Selective Publication of Findings as Appropriation of Knowledge: Observations on the 1931 Spring Campaign in Gerasa.” Journal of Urban Archaeology 12: 245–268. doi.org/10.1484/J.JUA.5.151436. 

Raja, Rubina. 2025. “In the Field and through the Archives. The 1928 American-British Campaign in Gerasa and the Excavation of the Church of St Theodore.” In Turning the Page: Archaeological Archives and Entangled Knowledge, ed. by Olympia Bobou, Rubina Raja, and Maria Stamatopoulou, Archive Archaeology 6 (Turnhout: Brepols), pp. 105-187. 

2026

Rubina Raja, “Making Sense of Collection Histories: Cultural Heritage in Context”, lecture: Art + Law Colloquium, Center for Art Law, Brooklyn, United States, 16 June 2026.

Rubina Raja, ““Artemis-Tyche of Gerasa”: Bringing non-urban nature into the city”, conference: Religion and Urbanity: New Research Paradigms for a Global Perspective?, Max-Weber-Kolleg, University of Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany, 4 June 2026.

Olympia Bobou, “Artistic Production at Edessa: from Parthia to Rome”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.

Giulia Vannucci, “Portraits and Identities in the Islands of the Roman Province of Asia”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.

Giovanni Colzani, “Women and Visual Replication in Roman Near East: Notes on the Diffusion and Local Reception of Female Body Types”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.

Julia Steding, “Crafting Identities in the Roman Provinces”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 23 May 2026.

Rubina Raja, “Welcome Speech”, conference: Roman Archaeology Conference & Theoretical Roman Archaeology Conference: Roman Archaeology Beyond the Fringes of the Empire, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 21 May 2026.

Rubina Raja and Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), “Send More Money: Financing of Large-Scale Excavations in the Late Ottoman and early Mandate Period”, conference: Patrons, Politicians, Agents and Archaeologists: The Networks Framing “Lost Cities” in Western Asia, Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 7 May 2026.

Rubina Raja, “Welcome”, conference: Patrons, Politicians, Agents and Archaeologists: The Networks Framing “Lost Cities” in Western Asia, Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 7 May 2026.

Rubina Raja, “Competing to Collect “Lost Cities” in late 19th and early 20th Centuries Asia Minor and the Near East: Denmark’s Role on the International Scene”, conference: Patrons, Politicians, Agents and Archaeologists: The Networks Framing “Lost Cities” in Western Asia, Archäologisches Zentrum of the Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 6 May 2026.

Rubina Raja, “Urban Cross-Crafting in the Roman Near East: Urban Innovations or Pure Necessities”, workshop: Craft Interactions in the Ancient World, Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany, 16 April 2026.

Giulia Vannucci, “Portrait Culture in the Syrian Tetrapolis (100 BCE–500 CE), lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 10 March 2026.

Olympia Bobou and Will Wootton (King’s College London), “The Anatomy of Appearance: Portraiture and Mosaic Production in Edessa”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 March 2026.

Giovanni Colzani, “Limestone Portrait Busts from Roman Syria-Palaestina: Considerations on Material, Technique and Style”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 March 2026.

Giulia Vannucci, “Local Portrait-Making in the Syrian Tetrapolis. Crafting Identities between Local Traditions and Imperial Contexts”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 March 2026.

Julia Steding, “Portraiture from Roman-period Egypt: New Avenues”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 March 2026.

Rubina Raja, Michael Blömer (University of Münster), and Ben Russell (University of Edinburgh), “Introduction”, conference: Crafting Portraits: Local and Regional Perspectives in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE) (A bottom-up LoCiS approach), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 March 2026.

Giovanni Colzani, “Zeitgesicht and Local Fashion in Limestone Portrait Busts from the Roman province Syria Palaestina”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 3 March 2026.

Olympia Bobou, “Portraits of Edessa”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 24 February 2026.

Julia Steding, “A Banquet for Eternity: Stone Carved Banquet Scenes from Roman-period Egypt”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 17 February 2026.

Rubina Raja, “Locally Crafted Empires: Portrait Habits in West Asia, 100 BCE–400 CE”, lecture series: Statements in Stone, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 10 February 2026.

Eleanor Q. Neil, “A Cypriot in Rome, A Statuette in Copenhagen”, conference: Dispersing Past Cities Through Collecting Travelers, Collectors and Their Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Century West Asia, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 February 2026. 

Olympia Bobou and Rubina Raja, “Collecting Palmyra in Copenhagen: Some Insights into the Palmyrene Collection of the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek”, conference: Dispersing Past Cities Through Collecting Travelers, Collectors and Their Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Century West Asia, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 February 2026. 

Rubina Raja, “Collecting Antioch on the Gold River: the Dispersal of Gerasa through the Dispersal of Excavation Finds”, conference: Dispersing Past Cities Through Collecting Travelers, Collectors and Their Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Century West Asia, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 February 2026. 

Franziska Bloch (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin) and Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), “From Travel Accounts to Excavation Trenches: Ctesiphon and Khirbat al-Minya as Examples for the Shaping of Archaeological Agendas”, conference: Dispersing Past Cities Through Collecting Travelers, Collectors and Their Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Century West Asia, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 February 2026. 

Olympia Bobou, Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), and Rubina Raja, “Welcome and Introduction”, conference: Dispersing Past Cities Through Collecting Travelers, Collectors and Their Networks in Late 19th and Early 20th Century West Asia, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 5 February 2026. 

Rubina Raja, “Archives and Urbanism: Examining Early Excavations through the Lost Cities Project”, seminar: Celebrating a Decade of UrbNet & Future Research, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2 February 2026.

Rubina Raja, “Locally Crafted Empires: A new Semper Ardens Advanced Grant Project on Portrait Sculpture”, seminar: Celebrating a Decade of UrbNet & Future Research, Antikmuseet, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark, 2 February 2026.

Rubina Raja, “Re(de)fining Palmyra: Optimising the Historical Past through Integrating Big Archaeological Datasets from Roman Period Palmyra (Syria)”, colloguium: ZAT-Kolloquium: „Ägypten – Griechenland – Rom: Neue Forschungen”, Trier University, Trier, Germany, 22 January 2026.

2025

Rubina Raja, “Oriental Studies, Islamvidenskab, and the Archaeology of the Orient: Some Notes on the Danish Engagements in the Region in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries”, conference: One Century of “Oriental” and Semitic Studies, 1830 through 1933 (and beyond): Scholarly Networks, Trajectories and Concepts, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS), Princeton, New Jersey, United States, 12 December 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Ways of Seeing the Past: The Archaeological Archive(s) of Palmyra”, lecture: Bard Graduate Center, Bard College, New York, United States, 9 December 2025.

Olympia Bobou, "Edessene Mosaic Portraits: Artistic Production at the Borders of Empire", conference: Local portrait habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE),  The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 December 2025.

Rubina Raja, “A Needle in a Haystack: Palmyrene Portraits and their Contexts”, conference: Local Portrait Habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 December 2025.

Rubina Raja, "Locally Crafted Empires and Local Portrait Habits", conference: Local portrait habits in West Asia and Egypt (100 BCE – 500 CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1 December 2025.

Eleanor Q. Neil and Rubina Raja, “Collection, Collation, and Curation: A Critical Reflection on the Digitisation Impulse”, conference: Disentangling the Intertwinement of Digitalisation and Decolonisation, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 28 November 2025.

Eleanor Q. Neil and Rubina Raja, “Introduction: Archaeology, Archives and the Digital Turn”, conference: Disentangling the Intertwinement of Digitalisation and Decolonisation, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 November 2025.

Laura P. Gotfredsen, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja, “Disentangling Gerasa’s Excavation History through Datafication”, conference: Disentangling the Intertwinement of Digitalisation and Decolonisation, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27 November 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Futuring Ancient Cities: From High-Definition Perspectives to Archive Archaeology”, conference: Metropolität in der Vormoderne. Ergebnisse und Perspektiven, University of Regensburg, Regensburg, Germany, 13 November 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Statements in Stone: Refining the Historical Past Through Integrating Big Archaeological Datasets from Roman Palmyra (Syria)”, lecture series: Mario and Antoniette Romano Lecture, History Department and Harpur College of Arts and Sciences, Binghamton University, Binghamton, United States, 6 November 2025.

Rubina Raja, "Faces of the Past: Refining the Historical Past through big Archaeological Datasets from Palmyra (Syria)", guest lecture: Gemeinsamer Gastvortrag-Philosophische Fakultät Institut für Klassische Archäologie & Seminar für Alte Geschichte, University of Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany, 29 October 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Histoire Événementielle and High-Definition Archaeology: Negotiating Cultural Contextualization and Natural Science Results”, conference: De la “Histoire événementielle” a la “High-Definition Archaeology”: Reflexiones, Retos y Herramientas Para la Caracterización del Tiempo Histórico a Través del Registro Material, Universidad de Sevilla, Seville , Spain, 16 October 2025.

Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar and Eleanor Q. Neil, “Living with the Ruins: Local Engagements with Archaeological Landscapes”, conference: Excavating Cities and Archiving knowledge: Revisiting the rediscovery of “Lost Cities” in the Late Ottoman and early Mandate periods, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3 October 2025.

Olympia Bobou, Miriam Kühn (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), Rubina Raja, “Like Joining the Pieces of a Puzzle: Examining the Documentation Surrounding early Urban Excavations”, conference: Excavating Cities and Archiving knowledge: Revisiting the rediscovery of “Lost Cities” in the Late Ottoman and early Mandate periods, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 3 October 2025.

Olympia Bobou, Miriam Kühn (Staatliche Museen zu Berlin), and Rubina Raja, “Welcome and Introduction”, conference: Excavating Cities and Archiving knowledge: Revisiting the rediscovery of “Lost Cities” in the Late Ottoman and early Mandate periods, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 2 October 2025.

Rubina Raja, "Locally Crafted Empires: Reflections on Palmyrene Portrait Habits After a Decade of the Palmyra Portrait Project", conference: Facing the Past: New Directions in Roman Portraiture, Indiana University, Bloomington, United States, 26 September 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Rediscovering “Lost Cities” and the Birth of Urban Archaeology: Urban Excavations between the late 19th Century and WWII in the Near East”, conference: Abandoned Cities - Resilience in Perceptions and Interpretations Kardinal Wendel Haus, Munich, Germany, 17 June 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Reexamining Excavation Histories in Late Ottoman and Mandate Western Asia: Documentation and Archival Practices as Knowledge Sharing, Centralization of Power and Appropriation of Cultural Heritage”, guest lecture, Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany, 4 June 2025.

Filiz Tütüncü Çağlar, “Theodore Macridy: The Devout Servant of Ottoman Archaeology”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.

Rubina Raja “Reassembling Gerasa: Urban Archaeology’s Role between Geopolitics, Regional Trajectories and Local Micro-Power”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.

Miriam Kühn (Museum für Islamische Kunst, Berlin), “Mapping the Field: Herzfeld’s Sketchbooks from the 1907-1908 Excursion in the Euphrates-Tigris Region”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.

Michael Blömer (University of Münster), Olympia Bobou, Eleanor Q. Neil, and Rubina Raja, “Lost Records, Marginalized Sites: Archival Gaps in Seleucia and Apamea”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 16 May 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Unleashing Knowledge and Structuring Notes: Archaeological ‘Archives’ and their Historiographies”, conference: Unleashing Knowledge, and Structuring Notes: Archaeological “archives” and their historiographies, Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 15 May 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Urban Culture in the Desert: New Research on Palmyra (Syria)”, seminar: Research Seminar Series, Classics and Ancient History, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 1 May 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Reimagining ‘the Urban’ of Classical Antiquity through Case Studies from the Middle East”, workshop: Urban Archaeology Workshop, Vere Gordon Childe Centre Boardroom, University of Sydney, Sydney, Australia, 29 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Contextualising Portraiture in Palmyra”, seminar: Ancient World Seminar Series, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, 28 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Dismantling and Reassembling Palmyra: Cultural Heritage, Collection Histories and Archaeological Ethics”, invited guest lecture, Monash University, Victoria, Australia, 28 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Greek Cities in the Eastern Mediterranean: Local, Greek and Roman Heritages in Urban Landscapes and the Role of Excavation History”, public lecture, University of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, 24 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Portrait Habits in Palmyra in the Syrian Desert (1st-3rd Century CE)”, invited guest lecture, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, 21 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Forging Urban Archaeology in the Middle East: Archaeological Practice and Geopolitics in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries”, invited guest lecture, Department of European History Graduate School of Letters, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan, 18 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Urban Religion in Gerasa/Jerash (Jordan) from the Late Hellenistic to the Early Islamic Period”, invited guest lecture, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA, Hawaii, 14 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “In search of Artemis-Tyche: The Cult and Sanctuary of Artemis in the Decapolis City of Gerasa”, invited guest lecture, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA, 8 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Creating Urban Archaeology: Entanglements of Archaeological Fieldwork, Research Agendas and Geopolitical Developments in the Late Ottoman and Mandate Periods”, invited guest lecture, University of California at Los Angeles, USA, California, 7 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Fragmented Urban Anti-Structures from Europe to Western Asia”, conference: Ranieri Colloquium on Ancient Studies- Reimagining Ancient Worlds: New Stories of the Distant Past, The NYU Center for Ancient Studies, New York University, New York, USA, 4 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Locally Crafted Empires: A New Perspective on Portrait Habits in the Near East (100 BCE-500 CE)”, seminar: Ancient Studies Seminar, Princeton Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton, New Jersey, USA, 1 April 2025.

Rubina Raja, ““Artemis-Tyche of Gerasa”: In Search of Artemis in the Decapolis City of Gerasa”, invited guest lecture: ARCHAIA program, Yale University, Connecticut, USA, 31 March 2025.

Rubina Raja and Jean-Baptiste Yon (CNRS), “Controlling or Coping with the Desert? Examples from the Region between Palmyra and the Euphrates”, conference: Taming the Steppe? Arid Regions under Roman and French Rule (of the 19th Century), Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik (DAI), Munich, Germany, 21 March 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Armed Men in Palmyrene Art”, conference: Carving the Individual: Self-Representations in Rock-Cut Monuments in the Parthian, Roman, and Sasanian Near East (2nd c. BCE‒3rd c. CE), The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, Denmark, 6 March 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Excavating Gerasa in the Field and through the Archives of the Mandate Period”, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina, USA, 27 February 2025.

Rubina Raja, “Self-Representation: The Portraits of Ancient Palmyra and their Importance in World Cultural Heritage”, Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA, 26 February 2025.

Rubina Raja, “A Dane in French Mandate Palmyra: Revisiting the Work of Harald Ingholt”, conference: Palmyre et ses Épigraphistes, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris, France, 7 February 2025.